Quotes About Love Life and Death

Life's Tests
The tests of life are to make, not break us.
Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up
his character. The blow at the outward man may be
the greatest blessing to the inner man. If God,
then, puts or permits anything hard in our lives,
be sure that the real peril, the real trouble, is
that we shall lose if we flinch or rebel.

Courage
an independant spark from
heaven's bright throne, by which the soul
stands raised, triumphant, high,
alone.

Cowardice:
One who in a perilous emergency
thinks with his
legs.

Wounds
inflicted by a sharp knife,
heal more quickly than wounds
inflicted by a
sharp tongue.

Three Tests:
When I want to speak
let me think first;
Is it true?
Is it kind?
Is it necessary?
If not,
let it be left
unsaid.

I find the great thing in this world
is not so much where we
stand,
as in what direction
we are moving.

Fear not
that thy life shall come to an end,
but rather fear
that it shall never have a
beginning.

Life is a lesson in humility.

False friendship, like the ivy,
it decays and ruins the wall it embraces;
but true friendship gives new life and animation
to the object it supports.

False friends are like our shadow,
keeping close to us when we walk in the sunshine,
but leaving us the instant
we cross into the shade.

A printed speech is like a dried flower:
the substance indeed is there,
but the color is faded and the perfume gone.

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.

Friendship is, strictly speaking,
reciprocal benevolence,
which inclines each party
to be solicitous for the welfare of the other as for his own.
This equality of affection is created and preserved
by a similarity of disposition and manners.

Manhood, not scholarship, is the first aim of education.

It is a miserable thing
to live a life of suspense,
it is the life of
a spider.

Gossip, pretending to have the eyes of argus,
has all the blindness of a bat.

Tact is leaving unsaid
The wrong thing at the tempting moment.

We have two ears and one tongue,
in order that we may hear more and speak less.

I always say, keep a diary
and it will someday keep you.

The wise old owl lived in an oak tree.
The more he saw, the less he spoke,
the less he spoke, the more he heard.
Why can't we all be like that wise old owl?

We will make great advances forward when we can
do like the man who said, "When I feel like finding
fault, I always being with myself and then I never
get any further."

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day.
First a person who says something down right nasty
about you and second, a dear 'friend' who makes sure
you have heard about it immediately.

If someone belittles you
He is only trying to cut you down
to his own size.

It is with a word as with an arrow~
once let it loose and it does not return.

There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it ill becomes any of us
To find fault with the rest of us.

He who repeats what he does not understand
is no better than an ass that is loaded down
with books.

Are you a journalist who sells his principles
in the markets of slaves and who fattens on gossip
and misfortune and crime? If so, you are like a
ravenous vulture preying upon rotting carrion.

When you tell your troubles to your neighbor
you present him with a part of your heart.
If he posssesses a great soul, he thanks you;
if he possesses a small one,
he belittles you.

Society
Is of naught but clamor and woe
And strife.
She is but the web of
The Spider,
the tunnel of the mole

I have sought repose everywhere,
and I have found it only
in a little corner with a little book.

Read the best books first,
or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
There is so much good in the worst of us,
and so much bad in the best of us,
that it ill becomes any of us
to find fault with the rest of us.

To be suspicious is to invite treachery.

I joked about every prominent man in my lifetime,
but I never met one I did'nt like.

How immense appear to us
the sins that we have not committed.

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

A friend hath the skill and observation of the best physician;
the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse;
and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.

A laugh is worth 100 groans in any market.

Be not simply good, but good for something.

I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books
than a king who did not love reading.

To kill time is, by definition, to murder it.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business,
and the graceful courtesy of princes.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.

I am not what I have been.

If you don't watch your figure,
Men won't watch it either.

He who knows himself best, esteems himself least.

Dought whom you will but not yourself.

If a man is worth knowing at all, he's worth knowing well.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Some books are to be tasted,
others to be swallowed
and a few to be chewed and digested.

Look your best, who said love is blind.

Life can't be too bad when for thirty dollars
you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas
and listen to them for the rest of your life.
The classic that the world has lost. The book that I never wrote.

I won't be reconstructed.

Poise is the art of raising the eyebrows, instead of the roof.

Inspiration is often born of desperation.

Those who follow the crowd, are quickly lost in it.
Oversleeping keeps a lot of dreams from coming true.

Language, like linen, is more pleasing when clean.

There is no pillow so soft as a clear concsience.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct,
not by their profession.

Trials
I would not miss one single,
heart pang, or throbbing brow;
Sweet was the chastisement severe,
And sweet its now.
Amelia E. Barr

To err is human, but it feels divine.
Mae West

It's better to be looked over than overlooked.
Mae West

If you obey all the rules,
you miss all the fun.
Katherine Hepburn

If you don't watch your figure,
men won't watch it either.
Unknown

Think and let think.
Unknown

Most women worth their salt and pepper
are a little peppery.
Unknown

Men and women have just enough in common to
enable them to misunderstand eachother.
Unknown

Debate is masculine,
conversation is feminine.
Unknown

Don't judge everything by appearance,
The early bird may simply have been up all night.
Unknown

Never think she loves him wholly, never
believe her love is blind, all his faults are
locked securely, in a closet of
her mind.
Unknown

Often the test of life is not to die but to live.
~Unknown

Ladies who play with fire, get smoke in their eyes.
Unknown

The VIRTUES, like the Muses,
are always seen in groups.
A good principle was never found
solitary in any breast.
Jane Porter

Tears are often the telescope to which
men see far into heaven"
Beecher

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts
Voltaire

To be modest in speaking truth is hypocrisy.
Kahlil Gibran

Life is an enchantress
Who seduces us with her beauty~
But he who knows her wiles
Will flee her enchantment.
Kahlil Gibran

When you tell your troubles to your neighbor
you present him with a part of your heart.
If he possesses a great soul, he thanks you;
if he possesses a small one,
he belittles you.
Kahlil Gibran
When love and skill work together
expect a masterpiece.
Ruskin

"You tell on yourself by the friends you seek.
By the very manner inwhich you speak.
By the way you employ your leisure time
and by the way you use a dollar or a dime.
You tell what you are by the things you wear,
by the spirit in which your burdens you bear.
By the kinds of things at which you laugh,
by the records you play on the phonograph.
You tell what you are by the way you walk,
by the things you delight to talk,
by the manner in which you bear defeat,
by so simple a thing as how you eat.
By the books you choose from a wall filled shelf,
in these ways and more you tell on yourself.
So, there's really no sence, of an effort
to keep pretence."